Get engaged! Lost cause, ok, but even then, for inspiration, read Zizek on the subject, take inspiration, and get engaged. Whatever your ideological predilictions (and mine are pretty well known...but I accept that we have differences), get off the internet and get to your local and get engaged.

Speaking of which, I've shortly to get off to my own, where we appear for cantonales to have finally reached an agreement with one of the major left parties here in France who is outside of our grouping to present a common list. A high score equals a more credible voice, and a common voice, this is important too, even if you are using like me the electoral process as an extension of protest, an extension of the domain of struggle.

Get to it all, there's work to be done!

The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet.
Winston Churchill

... As with existentialism, the precise content of the redemptive event, as opposed to the miraculous fact of its occurrence, is not always the main point at stake. iek agrees with Badiou that it is better to cling disastrously to such a revelation of truth than to remain indifferent to it, which is surely not the case. There is nothing admirable in fidelity for its own sake. Luke-warmness is not the most heinous of crimes. ...

Of all the ways of organizing banking, the worst is the one we have today — Mervyn King, 25 October 2010